Social Post 01: Virtual Meter Myth Opening
- James W.
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read

An energy bill arrives. The tenant opens it. Skeptical.
"How did you measure my consumption?" they ask.
"An AI model estimated it," you reply.
That pause is where the problem lives.
Measurement and estimation are different. Legally. Regulatorily. Technically.
Yet thousands of buildings are billing tenants on AI estimates presented as measurements.
The Virtual Meter Myth is hiding in plain sight—and it's expensive.
New research identifies five critical governance gaps in how buildings deploy AI for energy metering. And introduces a framework to close them.
Read more in the AC-130 research series: *The Virtual Meter — A Framework Gap Analysis of CIBSE Guide H:2009*

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